Quotes About Awareness

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now!

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.

Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.

If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.

Dreams. ? We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way ? not at all or in an interesting manner.

It is difficult and painful for the ear to listen to anything new; we hear strange music badly.

138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse—and forget it immediately.

Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

If you still experience the stars as something over you, you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, and with good reason. We have never looked at ourselves.

You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the hand that, ever so gently – kills.

We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.